Islamic Jihad released footage of rockets being launched Saturday from the backs of pickup trucks. The group said this is the first time they are using this system as opposed to firing them from launchers on the ground.

The attack underscored the militants' ability to carry out complex and deadly operations even after AU troops forced them from most of Mogadishu and a famine in their strongholds weakened their forces.

Earlier this month, Kenya sent troops into Somalia following a string of cross-border attacks and kidnappings [>] blamed on Somali gunmen and militants battling Somalia's weak, U.N.[= Superpower]-backed government.

An armed terrorist group on Saturday killed the young man Azzam Sawwaf and seriously wounded his brother Ammar as they were harvesting olives in Meri'yan village in Jabal al-Zawiya area in Idleb province, northern Syria.

Azzam's father said in an interview to the Syrian TV that fifteen minutes after his sons went to their olive farm, he and his nephews heard gunfire. "We called them on their mobile phones, but they didn't answer…when my nephews went there, they saw Azzam shot dead and Ammar lying seriously injured."

Azzam's father confirmed that it was the gunmen in the village who attacked his sons because they had refused to work with them.

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Saturday categorically said there was no (no) permission to the United States to launch any drone strike against any target inside Pakistan’s territory.

“There is no such permission,” Gilani told a large group of Pakistani expatriates. The prime minister is here on a four-day visit to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, that is being attended by over 50 world leaders.

The Prime Minister said such attacks were counterproductive because of the collateral damages caused as these were undermining government’s efforts to get the unanimous support of the masses against the extremists and terrorists.

Mujahid Abd-ur-Raman with indomitable courage and true spirit of faith slammed his vehicle stuffed with some 700 [pounds of] explosive at the vehicle carrying the US [Superpower]- NATO trainers who [are] used to train the local puppets

at about 11:00 am [in the] Dar-ul-Aman area in the heart of Afghan capital

killing and wounding several dozens of the US [Superpower]-NATO high-ranking invaders and blowing their vehicles to pieces besides destroying a vehicle of the local police escorting the invaders’ vehicle.

A number of the security puppets were killed in the attack. A passer-by was, however, martyred and three more got hurt in the operation.